quotes by Laurence J. Peter

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
— Laurence J. Peter

"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street."
— Laurence J. Peter

"Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
— Laurence J. Peter

"Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing."
— Laurence J. Peter

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
— Laurence J. Peter

"You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it."
— Laurence J. Peter

"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
— Laurence J. Peter

"Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it."
— Laurence J. Peter

"Some problems are so complex that you have to highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
— Laurence J. Peter

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
— Laurence J. Peter

"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."
— Laurence J. Peter

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
— Laurence J. Peter

"Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret"
— Laurence J. Peter

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
— Laurence J. Peter

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today."
— Laurence J. Peter (Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times)